According to reports, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani will resign and relinquish power to the Taliban, and Ali Ahmad Jalali, a US-based academic, is tapped to head an interim Afghan administration.
Earlier, a Taliban spokesman said that the militants are 'awaiting a peaceful transfer of Kabul city after they entered the capital's outskirts. Suhail Shaheen made the comment to Qatar's Al-Jazeera English satellite news channel. However, he declined to offer specifics on any possible negotiations between his forces and the government.